The War-Workers & Consequences (Annotated)

The War-Workers & Consequences brings together two acute early novels by E. M. Delafield, displaying her gift for social comedy sharpened into moral critique. The War-Workers satirizes the bureaucracy, vanity, and class assumptions surrounding women's voluntary labor during the First World War, while Consequences turns inward, tracing the emotional starvation and social conditioning of a young wom...